changing drive letters in windows

[Cristatus]

so here's the scene: i recently got a new HDD for one of my home computer, so i decided to install it. When installing it, i put the old drive as slave, popped in the new drive as master, installed windows.

When i got into windows, it tells me my old HDD is C:\ and my new (system) HDD is labeled as F:\. I went into Computer Management -> Disk Management, and got C:\ changed to H:\.

Now the only thing is, before i change F:\ to C:\, i want to make sure there is a way to make all my programs work so that they point to the new primary partition, which is now C:\, and not F:\, where everything is installed. is it possible?

 

[corkyg]

What I would have done was simply clone the old drive to the new drive. Then run the new drive as Master and disconnect the old drive. Everything should run exactly as before - except with more freeboard.

Once that door is open, install the old drive as slave and reformat it it. Do whatever you like with it at that point.

 

[mugs]

Is your "F" drive the boot drive? If so, I don't think you can change the letter. Last time I reformatted it made my boot drive F (I had no other hard drives installed), and I can't change it.

 

[Cristatus]

now why didn't i think of cloning! but wouldn't the cloning still have the same issue as before? because i would still have to hook up two HDDs

 

[DJFuji]

ew i wouldn't clone the drive. Just asking for trouble IMO. Even if it works flawlessly, you'll just clone the DLL Hell back to the new drive. Unless you recently reformatted/rebuilt the drive, i'd start over again, if only for peace of mind.